Tag: teaching

• A Complex Day in Monteal

  

  Yesterday, we went to Montreal, a marvelous, if notoriously inaccessible, city for the day. We had planned to be in a workshop focused on using puppetry for working with businesses. Montreal is about two hours from here, so we were up early, aiming to leave by 6 o’clock. We finally made it out of the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 29, 2016

  Arts, Disability, Stories, Teaching, Travel

  Arts, disability, Montreal, stories, teaching

• My Life Is A Gift

  

  This morning I met with a student who is working on a piece of historical fiction about distant family members who were settlers in the Dakotas. As we spoke about her writing, she mentioned fire that had burned the upper floor of this family’s mansion. The student had found a report in the town newspaper…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 12, 2016

  Disability, Healing, Stories, Teaching

  Polio, stories, survival, teaching

• IPTN: Our Workshop

  Our workshop provided an opportunity for directors, and individual performers, to think with us about disability, inclusion, and aesthetics. The time allotted to the workshop passed much too quickly as we engaged in a deep conversation about these difficult topics. One  of the most challenging aspects of any conversation about theater and disability is making…

  Michael Watson PhD

  July 23, 2015

  Arts, Disability, Stories, Teaching, Travel

  disability, IPTN, Playback Theatre, teaching, theatre

• IPTN: Conundrums and Burning Issues

  Montreal was hazy, a thin layer of smoke hung over the city. Tens of thousands of aces of forest were ablaze in northern  Canada, and the smoke from those fires rode the westerlies to Montreal. Some days were worse than others, resulting in hacking coughs and burning eyes. At the conference, this haze was a…

  Michael Watson PhD

  July 21, 2015

  Healing, Social issues, Stories, Teaching

  IPTN, Playback Theatre, Social Change, stories, teaching